Advertising device



H. M. YINGST.

ADVERTISING DEVICE. V

APPLICA'HON FILED MAR. 15, 1920 Patented Sept. 7, 1920.

3&2 wee GDNO CHE-1D INVENTOR AITORNEY WITNESSES- or flask of clear glass.length to rest on the omr' s ADVERTISING DEVICE.

Application files. March 15, 1920.

T all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HARRY M. YlNos'r,

a citizen of the United States, residing at Harrisburg, in the county ofDauphin and tate of Pennsylvania,-have invented new and usefulImprovements in Advertising Devices, of which the following is aspecification.

The present invention is in the nature of a novel advertising device. 7i

The object is to arrange in a transparent body an element having printedmatter thereon which is protected by the body and in which thecharacters appearing on the said element are rendered clearlydiscernible.

A fin-ther object is to produce a novel advertising means whichcomprises a member having printed matter or other indicia thereon andwhich is of a nature to permit of the same being inserted in atransparent receptacle, such as a glass bottle and held immovablytherein.

The foregoing objects, and others which will appear as the nature of theinvention is better understood, may be accomplished by a simpleconstruction, combination and arrangement of parts such-as is disclosedby the drawings.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a frontview of the improvement.

Fig. 2 is a rear View thereof.

Fig. 3 is a sectional view approximately 7 on the line 33 of Fig. 1. v

In the drawings I have illustrated a bottle which is indicated by thenumeral 1. V

The advertising novelty comprises an elongated member 2 which. hassecured thereto a shorter transverse member 3. The members 2 and 3 maybe in the nature of strips of cardboard, celluloid, rubber or any otherdesired material, and the connecting means between the strips is in thenature of a double headed rivet which is indicated by the numeral 4:-The heads of the rivet are round and lightly bind against the outerfaces of the strips. The strip 2 is of a bottom of the member 1 and tobe received in the neck thereof. The portion of the strip received inthe neck is contacted by the cork or stopper 5 of the member 1, so thatthe strip 2 is held centrally and longitudinally in the member 1.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Serial No. 365,977.

The strip 3 is of a length to have its ends frictlonally of the flask 1.

lower end of. the strip 2 contacts with the bottom of the flask, asuitable instru ment is employed for contacting with the strip 3 toswing the same on its.

pivot and bring the ends thereof in frictional engagement with the innerside walls of the flask. The cork is then inserted in the mouth of theflask and engaging with the outer end of the strip .2 holds the deviceset up approximately centrally in the flask in the form of a cross. Aspreviously stated the heads of the rivet lightly contact with themembers constituting the cross, but such contact is suflicient toprevent the free turning of one of the members on the other. (if course,the cross may be inserted in the flask in a different manner from thatdescribed, as for instance when the cross is constructed of yieldablematerial the trans- Patenred Sept. ""2,

contact with the inner side walls lVhen the device is inserted in theflask, thestrip 3 is preferably swung on its pivot against the strip 2.When the verse arm or strip thereof may be rounded upon itself andreadily inserted through the neck of the bottle, and thereafterpermitted to expand to its original shape, which will bring the endsthereof into frictional engagement with the side walls of the bottle andonly a slight adjustment may be re quired by a suitable instrumenttoarrange the transverse arm at a right angle with respect to the verticalarm.

In the construction disclosed by the drawings I have imprinted on thelateral or transverse member on one face of the cross John Barleycorn.On the vertical or central member 2 of the cross I have imprinted DiedJan. 16, 1920. This indicia will serve as a reminder to both ourselvesand posterity that alcoholic beverages received their death warrant onJanuary 16, 1920, and the cross will indicate that Chris tianity was thecause of the demise of alcoholic drinks, and also that the cross takes.

the place of such drinks. Thus posterity will be taught that the crossand whisky could not successfully exist together andthat the cross wassuccessful over the whisky.

On the reverse side printed Wake up, John is dead but we have a supplyof soft drinks. It will be thus 105. of the cross there is icross-shaped member having one of its ends contacting With the bottom ofthe body and its other end received in the neck and con tacted by thecork in the neck, the trans verse member of the crossrhaving its endscontacting With the sides of the body for V holding the cross againstlateral movement in the body.

In testimony whereof I ai'liX my signature. 20

HARRY M. YINGST.

